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Claynosaurz: An Exclusive Look at the Rising Solana Community
Depending on what your Twitter timeline looks like, you may have seen your favorite influencer or trader talking about Claynosaurz, the cute 3D dinosaurs on Solana that are taking the NFT world by storm. Despite the SOL and ETH communities being relatively independent of one another, this project has brought them together, attracting Ethereum enthusiasts to SOL. These days, chain crossovers aren’t rare. Most recently, top Solana projects DeGods and y00ts, have also migrated chains to Ethereum and Polygon, respectively. As NFTs become increasingly chain-agnostic, the boundaries between different blockchain worlds are becoming more blurred and integrated. As a result, users […]
Upcoming Drops: May 1-7
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, launches, and general happenings. Well, you can put the days of endless Twitter and Discord scrolling behind you as we pull together a weekly list of upcoming NFT drops you definitely don’t want to miss. […]
Exclusive: Sotheby’s Launches Secondary NFT Marketplace
The Alpha: Today, legacy auction house Sotheby’s launched its own secondary marketplace for fine art NFTs, according to information shared exclusively with nft now. The marketplace is an expansion of Sotheby’s Metaverse, the company’s digital artwork and collectibles platform. The peer-to-peer marketplace will feature fully on-chain sales showcasing a rotating selection of high-profile Web3 artists curated by Sotheby’s specialists. All transactions will take place on the Ethereum and Polygon networks. Collectors will be able to purchase works on the platform with ETH or MATIC. To inaugurate the marketplace’s launch, Sotheby’s is offering collectors a chance to buy and list works […]
10,000 Photos in 20 Min: Jeremy Cowart on His Attempt To Make Art History
The more Web3 evolves, the more challenging it is for artists and builders to innovate within its walls. Gamified drops, unique burn mechanics, and more are all now commonplace in the NFT ecosystem. Each new pioneering dynamic raises the stakes just a bit higher. This is a blessing for collectors, but it puts the onus on creators to stay on their toes and do something, well, new. Thankfully, even in the depths of an increasingly brutal bear market, the space isn’t short on creatives willing to step up to the plate. Enter visual artist Jeremy Cowart, a painter, illustrator, and […]
How BrainDrops Is Curating AI Art’s Future
To say most of the discussion surrounding artificial intelligence in the last six months has centered around AI art tools is no injustice to the technology’s broader context. While programs like ChatGPT have done much to showcase AI’s disruptive capabilities in the public’s eye, its advancements in AI art tools that have stirred up the most uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and conversations about what it means to be human in an age where human exceptionalism finds increasingly fewer places to hide. It’s not that artists using machine intelligence is anything new — creatives have been exploring the potential of AI to […]
Jenkins the Valet: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Azurian PFP
Web3 has seen many instances of Bored Ape holders monetizing their NFTs, taking full advantage of their IP rights through ape-branded clothing brands, food retailers, or other ventures. While there are 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs, some have gained more popularity than others due to these creative business endeavors. A prime example is Jenkins the Valet, a fictional character created by Tally Labs and dramatized around Bored Ape #1798, who acts as the Head Valet of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. But Jenkins’ story isn’t that straightforward. To help tell it, along with the story of Tally Labs’ subsequent controversial Azurbala […]
Marvel Studios Founder on Comics, Stan Lee, and NFTs
Everyone knows Marvel Studios. The production juggernaut fundamentally changed the entertainment landscape when it began the Marvel Cinematic Universe in earnest with the release of Iron Man in 2008. Fifteen years and over $25 billion in revenue later, the company continues to put out movies and streaming shows that expand on the characters under its banner. What people may not know is the person behind it all: David Maisel, the man who spearheaded that cinematic universe and was named chairman of Marvel Studios in March 2007. Maisel is responsible for getting the company to produce films of the characters it […]
Upcoming Drops: April 24-30
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, launches, and general happenings. Well, you can put the days of endless Twitter and Discord scrolling behind you as we pull together a weekly list of upcoming NFT drops you definitely don’t want to miss. […]
Runway Exclusive: An Inside Look at Digital Fashion Platform DRAUP
Welcome back to Runway where we report to you from the front lines of the digital fashion revolution. Today, we bring you exclusive visuals from DRAUP, a digital fashion platform by Dani Loftus (creator of This Outfit Does Not Exist) launching April 25. Backed by Variant Fund, Flamingo DAO, Ian Rogers, GMoney, Cozomo de’ Medici, Trevor McFedries, and others, DRAUP proposes a mission of “expanding the creative and technological bounds of digital fashion.” Each collection created under DRAUP’s in-house brand is done so in collaboration with a pioneering artist. The inaugural collection, #00: Seen On Screen, features Nicolas Sassoon who […]
AI Art vs. AI-Generated Art: Everything You Need to Know
Artists have been experimenting with artificial intelligence for years, but the practice has gained new levels of awareness with the release of increasingly powerful text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Open AI’s DALL-E. Similarly, the genre of generative art has gained a cult-like following over the past year, especially among NFT artists and collectors. But what’s the difference? Does the category of generative art also include art made from super-charged AI art generators, too? From an outsider’s point of view, it’s easy to assume that all computer-generated artwork falls under the same umbrella. Both types of art use code […]